That which does not destroy us...

makes us sneeze.

Given the severity my allergies lately, I'm beginning to think that which makes me sneeze may end up destroying us.

Galactic Orientation - Moving Edition

Actually, it was only 120 miles. But it felt a lot like that.

Self Referencing Sentences

This statement is a paradox.

In the Future...

Everything will be RETRO!

Hell - Here's the deal...

You get all the crap you want in Hell, but you have to move it all - every six months. And no yard sales or trips to Goodwill. Any idea how much broken consumer electronics you can accumulate after a quadrillion years?

ThoughtCriminal is moving next week.

Galactic Orientation - Part 2

THE CIA goes to the Movies!

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Central Intelligence Agency rewrite of Animal Farm
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"Many people remember reading George Orwell's "Animal Farm" in high school or college, with its chilling finale in which the farm animals looked back and forth at the tyrannical pigs and the exploitative human farmers but found it "impossible to say which was which."

That ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans, leaving only the nasty pigs. Another example of Hollywood butchering great literature? Yes, but in this case the film's secret producer was the Central Intelligence Agency.

The C.I.A., it seems, was worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell's pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs. So after his death in 1950, agents were dispatched (by none other than E. Howard Hunt, later of Watergate fame) to buy the film rights to "Animal Farm" from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist."

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Later, the CIA bought the rights to Animal House, thinking that it was going to be a remake of Animal Farm. The project was abandoned and sold off soon after they found out it had nothing to do with Orwell's novel, but not before they tinkered with some possible rewrites. In the CIA version, the Omega House triumphs over the Deltas , saves Dean Wormer and the Faber College Homecoming Parade.

Dean Wormer with future White House aide and CIA Director, Gregg Marmalar.